NYPL’s iconic Rose Reading Room has officially reopened

The Reading Room had been closed to the public for more than two years.

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The New York Public Library’s Rose Reading Room and Bill Blass Public Catalog Room officially reopened to the public Wednesday at 10 a.m.. Early this morning, NYPL staff held a ribbon-cutting celebration for two adjacent spaces located on the third floor of the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue. Both rooms had been closed to the public for more than two years for repairs and restorations.